WIRED is hosting a 1-day skill training in Berlin where you learn effectively how to build up your capacity for innovation.

This Wired Skill Training brings you into the mindset and approach of innovation. By exploring the mind of your internal and external customers you will be introduced to the means of innovating rapidly with more quality; all the while keeping at the pace of your audience and business. Why do some companies thrive while others falter? What and who affects innovation and the ever changing market? How do you lead your organization to create the next big thing?

This skill training is open to those who want to create the framework to lead their organization on to the forefront of innovation. Those who want to challenge their hypothesis and not only learn; but apply new ways of thinking, stay creative and know how to stay ahead of the curve.

The second day of CIF is Czech Startup Day. Friday’s programme will start with presentations by four Czech companies, institutions and very successful startups: Ackee, JIC (Jihomoravské inovační centrum), Kiwi.com a Avast Software. Afterwards seven selected startups (Fosh, Behaviolabs, Agent Balance, Datlowe, UrbanCyclers CZ, Shipvio, Neos xR) will take part in a startup pitch. There will be room for discussions with the audience as well and the evening ends with a get together and music by François Svalis.

from 5:30

Startups & Partners stands & presentations

Meet Czech Scientists and Innovators and Tour the Virtual Reality with Eli beamlines and See You Later Gallery VR.

6.00 pm

Presentations and Meetups

Ackee – Apps Development Outlook
5 do’s and 5 don’ts for a successful mobile app in 2017
Do you plan to develop an app for your startup or corporate project? What are the cool tech trends that are worth following? And which don’t work? We will share our experiences as mobile developers and will show some do’s and don’ts on a concrete app – examples.

JIC – Czech Silicon Valley
Come and meet gamedesigners from Brnoregion
Did you know that games Mafia or Machinarium were born in South Moravia, Czech Republic? And did you know that there is a strong, rising community of game designers and developers united in the independent initiative GameDev Area? There are so many more secrets you probably have not heard of yet about Brnoregion. Let´s meet up and explore them! Brno shall be the game of your life!

Kiwi.com – Managing Rocket GrowthKiwi.com celebrated its 5th anniversary this year. As it’s been still growing there are more than 1 300 Kiwis all around the world that disrupt the travel industry every day. Join the event and find out how the IT development has changed for those +180 IT ninjas – what dev languages and methodologies are used, how much data the IT infrastructure can handle etc. Also, Kiwi.com doesn’t operate only from Brno but got more international with more than 10 offices globally.Kiwi.com, formerly known as Skypicker, is an online travel agency with ground-breaking Virtual Interlining technology and a focus on exceptional customer service. The unique combination algorithm allows our customers to combine flights from non-cooperating airlines onto a single itinerary, often resulting in significant savings. Currently, the company employs more than 550 people.

Avast – Cybersecurity Threats 4.0
Jiří Bracek will talk about Cybersecurity Threats 4.0. Avast, the global leader in digital security products for businesses and consumers, protects over 400 million people online. Avast offers products under the Avast and AVG brands that protect people from threats on the internet and the evolving IoT threat landscape. The company’s threat detection network is among the most advanced in the world, using machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to detect and stop threats in real time. Avast digital security products for Mobile, PC or Mac are top-ranked and certified by VB100, AV-Comparatives, AV-Test, OPSWAT, ICSA Labs, West Coast Labs and others. Avast is backed by leading global private equity firms CVC Capital Partners and Summit Partners.

8.00 pm

Czech Startup Pitch

7 selected Czech IT Startups:

AgentBalanceAgentBalance is an analytical “Solution as a Service” that provides managers of customer services providers with unique correlations of psychometric data and performance parameters about their employees. Together with our customers, we can correlate these parameters with any performance metrics or custom external data. MEASURE satisfaction, relationships, and engagement. CORRELATE it with performance. UNDERSTAND your employees and customers. PROVIDE better customer services.

City Barometer – Automated opinion research for cities and townsCity officials lack continuous feedback tool for their decision-making. That’s why we have built City Barometer! We quickly build a representative panel and give the officials an online store with 20 most common research types (city’s strategy; investment support check; funds prioritization; citizen satisfaction and issues in areas like healthcare, bureaucracy etc.; traffic optimization). Citizens get an entertaining and gamified one-stop-shop app to participate in their hometown’s dealings. Hot topic discussions, participatory budgeting and suggestion-posting modules keep citizens engaged. The state-of-the-art methodology, automation and data visualisation provides officials with quick answers to set up investment priorities, get satisfaction stats and keep citizens in the loop.

DatloweWe use technology to automate manual and repetitive administrative back-office work. We believe that “dull” tasks can be done better by machines and humans are better suited for communication and more complex tasks that require reasoning and judgement. We combine text-mining solutions, natural language processing (NLP), machine learning and software robots (Robotic Process Automation) to transform organizations to digital era.
We are Czech company, established in 2014. Our core team of data scientists and process automation architects has its roots in business consulting for large corporations and big clients. Currently we have 20+ employees and worked on 20+ projects over last 2 years and still growing. We are focused on Central and Easter Europe region.
Our clients come from various sectors: real estate, insurance, banking, finance and accounting, government and shared service centres.

FoshFOSH is a virtual friend that will be ready 24/7 to motivate skaters to master new tricks and connect with people all over the globe using the various challenges. You can imagine FOSH as a combination of the legendary game Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Runtastic and PokemonGO.

Neos xR, work and education in shared environmentsSolirax’s VR/AR multiverse engine makes work, entertainment and education better in shared, collaborative environments. Screens are all about single user experience. We’ve developed next generation computing interface to bring people back together. Good bye mouse and keyboard, goodbye touchscreen. Everyone with xR headset, no matter how far away, is now able to meet up in a highly productive virtual environment with intuitive to use tangible tools. Welcome to the offices and classrooms of tomorrow.

ShipvioShipVio let businesses to ship small packages and pallets across Europe using our network of vehicles with spare truck capacity and saving on average 15-20% of money and time. We are on path of creating worlds largest group of available vehicles in one platform. We are creating an ultimate logistic hub every company have ever dreamed of. Our focus is on the process automatization and providing services without any mediators or cargo resellers.

UrbanCyclers: Making urban cycling easier and more funUrbanCyclers is the world’s leading mobile app for the rapidly growing population of urban cyclists. With UrbanCyclers, riders leverage the wisdom of the cycling community to find safe and enjoyable routes and to avoid the risks of cycling in the city. Riders also collect unique badges, compete in leader boards and even win real prizes from our partners. Cities benefit too, through UrbanCycler’s big data cycling analytics and engaging mobile-first cycling campaigns. Having reached 10 thousand active users and 1 million cycled kilometres in Prague alone, we’re now looking to transform urban cycling worldwide.

Impulse: Kiwi.com and Avast

Get together / DJ François SvalisFrançois Svalis is an Olomouc-based electronica and techno producer who has been releasing music since 2015. He has received great critical acclaim for his emotional electronica made for both the dancefloor and sit-down concerts on various blogs and radios worldwide. He focuses his energy on supporting and nurturing the music scene even further, so he founded along with David John Carter a label called Circle of Us in Rostock, which is more than just a label, it is more of a family of artists. After a very sharp start in the beginning of this year when he embarked on many live concerts, he has stepped back for the sole purpose of making his debut LP which should be released by the end of this year.

Startup Safary Berlin is a three days event of open doors to the start-up ecosystem. Attendees visit start-ups, VCs, accelerators, incubators and co-working spaces. They meet the founders, investors and their teams and participate in workshops, office tours, parties, networking, recruiting sessions and free office hours with experts.

Startup Safary is a unique opportunity to meet those behind the most contemporary entrepreneurial ideas and network with all those who make up a part of the international start-up ecosystem. The format was created in Berlin and celebrating its 4th Berlin edition this year. It started with 1,000 participants and now became one of the highlights of Berlin Web Week. This year’s edition is awaiting over 2,000 attendees.

Berlin’s tech community comes together to discuss changes and trends we’ve seen in the Berlin startup ecosystem in 2016. Are Brexit and Trump influencing the investment climate? Have we progressed on women and minorities in tech? What are the risks and opportunities for startups in Berlin in 2017?

With 26 years of experience helping brands get to know their consumer and make strategic decisions, the team at Happy Thinking People have a thing or two share around how to collect relevant consumer insight, and how it can help businesses grow.

This summer event – to take place on our spectacular rooftop terrace in Mitte – invites local enterprises across all industries who are interested in successfully growing their business. Guest speakers from Zalando and HelloFresh will be sharing their stories on how consumer insight is used in growing their brand.

Guest speakers:

Kornelia Wroblewska – Senior Market Research Manager at Zalando

Nadines Guhlich – Global Director Market Research at HelloFresh, formerly Audience Research Lead at SoundCloud

Please join us for some interesting conversations and networking opportunities over drinks, nibbles and live music.

ProfileMe is an initiative by The Next Billion inviting female entrepreneurs, female founders and women small business owners in 20 cities across the globe including Berlin to show up, to be seen, to be discovered and to be recognised. We’re offering female entrepreneurs the opportunity to book portrait photoshoots with our talented pool of locally crowdsourced photographers.

So often female entrepreneurs, no matter where they live, are unseen and invisible and their contributions to our families, communities, local and global economies all too often also go unnoticed. Not any more! With ProfileMe, take the first step to raising your profile with professional portraits captured through a photoshoot with Grit Siwona in Berlin.

ABOUT THE PHOTOSHOOT

When: 30/3/2017

Time: 09:00 – 17.00

On offer: 20 mini photo sessions available to 20 female entrepreneurs on a first-come-first-served basis.

Duration: 15 mins appointment slot for each entrepreneur.

How to book your time slots: Once you make your purchase via Eventbrite, your confirmation email will inlcude instructions and link to book your slot.

The takeaway: Three (3) hi-res profile portraits

The Cost: €69.00

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Grit is a Berlin-based photographer, available worldwide. She loves to capture the true beauty, strength and glory of people – inspired by the great source of life and love that connects us all.

We invite you to learn more about the Korean startup scene, about B2B-cooperation, Korean consumers, government support and a rewarding business environment. You are already active in Korea? You are planning to enter the Korean market? You always wanted to learn more about Korea? We are looking forward to connect you with the right people and provide the necessary information.

Is it really that easy? Platform Businesses are on the rise. Customers love the easy „one-stop-experience“! And success stories like Dawanda, Air BnB, Immoscout, etc. are giving us the feeling that there is more in this! But what are the secrets of succes and what are challenges in building a new marketplace? Why are there so many huge networks out there and why is it so difficult to use them in a commercial way? FOUNDIX invites you to an eye opening evening: Oliver Meyer, Florian Heuer and Maurice Martsch the Founders of FOUNDIX will explain their business modells and how they help you using your existing networks to build a business or make it grow.

Everybody who is interested in learning how …
… to set up a marketplace without technical knowledge, huge capital and a team of coders
… to use an existing networks of likeminded people to make money out of it
… the next generation of marketplaces will be working together

Startupnight is one of Europe’s largest startup events, where startups present themselves to corporates, investors and potential customers. It will take place for the 5th time on Friday, September 8th 2017 in the heart of Berlin with 5000+ participants and 250+ startups from around the world in categories like mobility, energy, communication, AI, AR/VR, health and many more.